December 20 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on December 20, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♐︎ Sagittarius
Nov 22 – Dec 21
Birth stone
Turquoise
Birth flower
Narcissus
How common
#6 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous December 20 birthdays
Ferdinand Buisson · French academic and politician1841
Walter Sydney Adams · American astronomer1876
Jaroslav Heyrovský · Czech chemist1890
Irene Dunne · American actress and singer1898
David Bohm · American theoretical physicist1917
George Roy Hill · American film director1921
Kim Young-sam · President of South Korea from 1993 to 19981927
Abdulrazak Gurnah · Tanzanian-born British writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature1948
Binali Yıldırım · Prime Minister of Turkey1955
Martin Schulz · German politician1955
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz · President of Mauritania from 2009 to 20191956
Kim Ki-duk · South Korean film director1960
Nicușor Dan · President of Romania since 20251969
Todd Phillips · American filmmaker1970
Ashley Cole · English association football player1980
Martín Demichelis · Argentine footballer and coach1980
Jonah Hill · American actor1983
JoJo · American singer and actress1990
Jorginho · Brazilian and Italian association football player1991
Kylian Mbappé · French association football player1998
On this day in history
1951Experimental Breeder Reactor I near Arco, Idaho, U.S., became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it became able to illuminate four 200-watt light bulbs.
1980NBC aired the American football match between the New York Jets and the Miami Dolphins without announcers.
2007Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art before being recovered about three weeks later.
2019The United States Space Force becomes the first new branch of the United States Armed Forces since 1947.
1984Twelve-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her home in Greeley, Colorado; her body was not discovered until 2019.
1989The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
1995Mandated by the Dayton Agreement that ended the Bosnian War, the NATO-led Implementation Force (troops pictured) began peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1999Portugal transferred the sovereignty over Macau, which it had administered since the mid–16th century, to China.
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